Tent Work in Bristol

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 30, 1914

Tent Work in Bristol

UNDER date of July 13, Elder J. B. Locken writes to the editor of the Protestant Magazine, from Bristol, Va., telling his experience in the tent work in that place: “I am glad to tell you that the Protestant Magazine helped us to get a congregation in this city. It is a new field. The Holiness people were here last year with their tent work, and their conduct was such that the city authorities closed their meeting. When we came, the people thought we were the same. We therefore had trouble in finding a location, and had to get permission from the city authorities and the consent of the property holders around the lot we rented before we could start our meeting. We had a hard time to get a hearing from the better class of people, and not until after I canvassed the city with the Protestant did the tide change. I announced a week’s program on Catholicism, and our big tent filled up and has been full ever since. With the report of my sermons in the daily paper, every day the message is going to all the people of this place.”